Campus & Community

How a bit of moxie and a whole lot of heart jump-started the WashU women’s soccer program.

Launched in 2007, WashU’s Alberti Program offers young people a hands-on introduction to architecture, a field rarely included in the K-12 curriculum. Students ask the same questions, use the same tools and build the same models as real-life architects.

As public trust in higher education falters, WashU leans into our strengths of affordability, career readiness and open dialogue.

After many years of support for scholarships and innovative health initiatives, the Bursky family made a landmark commitment of $200 million through our With You campaign — the largest gift in WashU history — to accelerate the work of the School of Public Health.

Vincent Mellnick, MD, has been named senior vice chair and division director of academic practice and Malak Itani, MD, has been named section chief of abdominal imaging. Both are faculty members in WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology.

Pamela Barmash, interim chair of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern studies in WashU Arts & Sciences, has been elected president of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew.

Angela Coonce, chief of the WashU Police Department, will be inducted as an inaugural member of the new Harris-Stowe State University Athletic Hall of Fame. She was selected for excellence and leadership on and off the basketball court at her alma mater.

During the 2026 fiscal year, a number of faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis were promoted from associate professor with tenure to full professor.

For Caleb Rogers, serving as 2026-2027 editor-in-chief of the Washington University Law Review is both a leadership opportunity and a chance to help shape the scholarship the journal publishes. A third-year law student, Rogers is leading Volume 104 while preparing for a career in commercial finance.

The Center for the Humanities and the Department of African and African American Studies, both in WashU Arts & Sciences, will launch a yearlong Sawyer Seminar on “Black Studies and the Future of the American University” Sept. 10.